A Room Called Remember
A Room Called Remember
Frederick Buechner
Russell Moore
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A Room Called Remember

A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces

Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
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In the luminous collection "A Room Called Remember," Frederick Buechner invites readers into an intimate exploration of faith, love, and the profound impact of words. Through a series of essays, sermons, and reflections that traverse the terrains of personal history and biblical narratives, Buechner unveils the sacredness embedded in our stories and the divine whispers in our daily lives. This book is not merely a journey through Buechner's own spiritual landscape but an open invitation to discover the "still room" within ourselves — a sanctuary where the past is not a shadow but a light guiding us to deeper understanding and connection. Buechner masterfully weaves autobiography with theology, demonstrating how our individual stories are threads in a larger tapestry of human experience and divine interaction. "A Room Called Remember" emerges as a beacon for those seeking solace in remembering, offering clarity and quietness of heart to consciously embrace the lives we have lived. It is a testament to the power of memory as a form of communion, a sacred act that brings us closer to the truth of who we are and the boundless grace that shapes our existence. With each page, readers are called to acknowledge the beauty of remembering, to find within it the strength to face the present and the courage to step into the future.

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Released
1984
1 Feb
Length
208
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Russell Moore recommended this book on Twitter.
The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to, for sifting through the things we have done and the things we have left undone for a clue to who we are and who, for better or worse, we are becoming. But again and again we avoid the long thoughts….We cling to the present out of wariness of the past. And why not, after all? We get confused. We need such escape as we can find. But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need—not all the time, surely, but from time to time—to enter that still room within us all where the past lives on as a part of the present, where the dead are alive again, where we are most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys have brought us. The name of the room is Remember—the room where with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived.
— Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember

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